Amazing, ONE tree the size of 5 football stadiums.. that’s a big Cashew tree😲

[Perplexed]

Cashews - reminds me of a story. One fellow I was acquainted with went to south Texas with a buddy for work, and on the way, they saw a roadside stand selling raw cashews. They bought a bag, but instead of cooking them, ate them raw.

The next day, both of them had rashes - that spread outward from their nether orifices. It wasn’t pleasant for either of them.

 

[Gunbuffer]

Ok this story is not really being honest.
It’s a park full of cashew clones. They said in the video themselves. That when above ground branches touch the ground they set down roots. This is nothing unique in the botanical world; it’s a known, asexual reproductive strategy.
There are huge swaths of northern poplar forests that are in fact all clones. I’d guarantee that those areas are bigger than that little park.

 

[ttown]

Ok I bit and have a bad taste in my mouth after doing some research on stadium size.
The foot ball field is about 1.32 acres and this largest tree is not but 2.2 acres.

When I hear stadium I account for all the grandstands etc.

Big tree though I will give that one to ya.

This being in Brazil I believe they’re referring to soccer stadiums not American football fields.

 

[SlugSlinger]

Ever been to Ft Meyers Florida? Thomas Edison's winter home has a Banyan tree planted there that is supposed to be the largest tree in the US.

The home, the grounds and his "shop" can be toured and is well worth the visit. Oh, and his neighbor was Henry Ford.

The Banyan Tree​

Before you even enter the complex, the massive banyan tree that largely shades the parking area will attract your attention and awe.

In 1925, Firestone obtained this tree in Calcutta as a gift for Edison. At the time, it was four feet high and two inches in diameter. Nearly a century later, it is thought to be the largest banyan in the United States.

Banyan tree next to the laboratory
A forest in itself, it shades more than an acre of ground. Prop roots create a virtual maze beneath it. Fittingly, a statue of Edison is displayed near its base.

More about banyan trees:

Story of the Great Banyan, world’s largest banyan tree

Estimated to be more than 250 years old, the Great Banyan is a looming figure, towering over everything else at Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur, Howrah, Kolkata.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[Catt57]

This being in Brazil I believe they’re referring to soccer stadiums not American football fields.

Regulation soccer fields are even larger than football fields, so that would actually make the comparison even worse....

 

[Shoot Summ]

Ever been to Ft Meyers Florida? Thomas Edison's winter home has a Banyan tree planted there that is supposed to be the largest tree in the US.

The home, the grounds and his "shop" can be toured and is well worth the visit. Oh, and his neighbor was Henry Ford.

The Banyan Tree​

Before you even enter the complex, the massive banyan tree that largely shades the parking area will attract your attention and awe.

In 1925, Firestone obtained this tree in Calcutta as a gift for Edison. At the time, it was four feet high and two inches in diameter. Nearly a century later, it is thought to be the largest banyan in the United States.

Banyan tree next to the laboratory
A forest in itself, it shades more than an acre of ground. Prop roots create a virtual maze beneath it. Fittingly, a statue of Edison is displayed near its base.

More about banyan trees:

Story of the Great Banyan, world’s largest banyan tree

Estimated to be more than 250 years old, the Great Banyan is a looming figure, towering over everything else at Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur, Howrah, Kolkata.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

They one on Maui in Lahaina is the largest, planted in 1873.

Banyan tree in Lahaina - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[BillM]

Ok I bit and have a bad taste in my mouth after doing some research on stadium size.
The foot ball field is about 1.32 acres and this largest tree is not but 2.2 acres.

When I hear stadium I account for all the grandstands etc.

Big tree though I will give that one to ya.

Well, they said football FIELDS, not stadiums.

The size of five stadiums (by your definition) could vary quite a bit (high school stadiums? College stadiums? NFL stadiums?)

All football fields are the same size (I am assuming your 1.32 acres, but math is no fun)

I'll take it that your point (it's not the size of 5 football fields) is probably correct.

In Brazil, Football is what we call soccer. Professional soccer fields are larger than school fields, and their fields are similar but not the same as ours. They measure in meters where we use yards, there is quite a bit of allowed variance in field size, and the difference could be a rounding error, too. after all, 2.64 is not that much larger than 2.2 acres. They don't actually use acres there, either. Hectares is more likely in the metric system they use. That's 10,000 square meters, or a bit under 2.5 acres. I went back and watched the video again, and it does say stadiums, but I searched stadiums in brazil and found this one: Brazil soccer field harnesses player-power you can see from the photo that the "stadium" doesn't have bleachers and such as even our high school stadiums have, and it's quite a bit smaller than an American Football field. Could just be because this one is built in one of the more notorious slums.

I've never been to Brazil, so have no personal knowledge of what things are like there. I can tell you that Brazilian Football is a path out of the slums there as much as American Football and Basketball and other sports is for folks here in our slums. Considerable inspiration, if not any sort of guarantee. I worked in the ISR classroom at my local high school for nearly 5 years. Quite a few of my students plans for the future involved playing Pro Basketball, Football, or Baseball. One of the exercises I'd have them work through was to calculate the number of players in their preferred sport: I had them add in all the support people, too, just so the odds weren't quite a high, and then figure their odds of making it in that field. I also told them not to give up the dream, but that they'd better have a backup plan, as well. More than one, if possible! There'd been a College player around that time, that got his knees destroyed, IIRC. He'd been taking college seriously, so had good grades in another field, and I'd remind them of that possibility. And I'd also suggested that if they couldn't make it as the star Quarterback, Pitcher, or whatever, if they loved the game enough, they could be one of the trainers, or other support folks, too.

Haven't seen any of my kids from there make it big in any field, but I've run into a few of them now and then, and they generally thank me for making them think things through a bit better than they had. Last one I ran into was delivering my pizza, and recognized me. He was attending college, finally, something like 15 years after I was last teaching there. It was actually a teacher's assistant position, but there was no teacher in that classroom, and the longest I had a student in there was usually about 5 class days. Though there were a few who spent a couple of months in there with me, in the course of that five years.

I used to tell them that if they'd had ISR when I was in high school I'd have probably had a reserved desk in it.

 

[SoonerP226]

Ever been to Ft Meyers Florida? Thomas Edison's winter home has a Banyan tree planted there that is supposed to be the largest tree in the US.

The home, the grounds and his "shop" can be toured and is well worth the visit. Oh, and his neighbor was Henry Ford.

The Banyan Tree​

Before you even enter the complex, the massive banyan tree that largely shades the parking area will attract your attention and awe.

In 1925, Firestone obtained this tree in Calcutta as a gift for Edison. At the time, it was four feet high and two inches in diameter. Nearly a century later, it is thought to be the largest banyan in the United States.

Banyan tree next to the laboratory
A forest in itself, it shades more than an acre of ground. Prop roots create a virtual maze beneath it. Fittingly, a statue of Edison is displayed near its base.

More about banyan trees:

Story of the Great Banyan, world’s largest banyan tree

Estimated to be more than 250 years old, the Great Banyan is a looming figure, towering over everything else at Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur, Howrah, Kolkata.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Oh, great, this is giving me Old IT Guy flashbacks.